Author: Sheridan House
Publisher: Sheridan House
ISBN: 9781608934737
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Mariner's Book of Days is an annual treasure. Year by year it takes us on a new and different 365-day imaginary voyage through time, an encyclopedic passage through the maritime past, present and future. Since its inception in 1992, The Mariner's Book of Days has been hailed as the best, most entertaining nautical desk diary and calendar to see print.
Mariners Book of Days
Author: Sheridan House
Publisher: Sheridan House
ISBN: 9781608934737
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Mariner's Book of Days is an annual treasure. Year by year it takes us on a new and different 365-day imaginary voyage through time, an encyclopedic passage through the maritime past, present and future. Since its inception in 1992, The Mariner's Book of Days has been hailed as the best, most entertaining nautical desk diary and calendar to see print.
Publisher: Sheridan House
ISBN: 9781608934737
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Mariner's Book of Days is an annual treasure. Year by year it takes us on a new and different 365-day imaginary voyage through time, an encyclopedic passage through the maritime past, present and future. Since its inception in 1992, The Mariner's Book of Days has been hailed as the best, most entertaining nautical desk diary and calendar to see print.
The Mariner's Book of Days 2007
Author: Peter H. Spectre
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN: 157409226X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
A desk calendar with information on maritime history plus facts, folklore, and anecdotes from the traditions of the sea.
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN: 157409226X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
A desk calendar with information on maritime history plus facts, folklore, and anecdotes from the traditions of the sea.
The Mariner's Book of Days 2011
Author: Peter H. Spectre
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN: 1574092936
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
The best, most entertaining nautical desk diary and calendar to see print
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN: 1574092936
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
The best, most entertaining nautical desk diary and calendar to see print
Shipwrecked
Author: Jon Wells
Publisher: Epicenter Press (WA)
ISBN: 9781935347187
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Jon Wells, a baseball writer who has covered the Seattle Mariners for more than 15 years, asserts that poor management and shortsighted ownership combined to keep a team with three first-ballot Hall of Fame players, each in the prime of his career, from reaching the World Series. Wells details every misstep by the Mariners during the team's 35-year history. But wait, there's hope! Can General Manager Jack Zduriencik bring in enough young talent to make this club a contender again, as he did for the Milwaukee Brewers? Shipwrecked includes 45 color photos, most of which have not been published elsewhere.
Publisher: Epicenter Press (WA)
ISBN: 9781935347187
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Jon Wells, a baseball writer who has covered the Seattle Mariners for more than 15 years, asserts that poor management and shortsighted ownership combined to keep a team with three first-ballot Hall of Fame players, each in the prime of his career, from reaching the World Series. Wells details every misstep by the Mariners during the team's 35-year history. But wait, there's hope! Can General Manager Jack Zduriencik bring in enough young talent to make this club a contender again, as he did for the Milwaukee Brewers? Shipwrecked includes 45 color photos, most of which have not been published elsewhere.
The Mariner's Book of Days 2004
Author: Peter H. Spectre
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781574091663
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An institution among sailors, merchant mariners, and dreamers of all stripes, The Mariner's Book of Days, now in its thirteenth year, is an ever-growing encyclopedia of nautical fact, fiction, and folklore, and has been hailed as the best, most entertaining nautical desk diary and calendar to see print.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781574091663
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An institution among sailors, merchant mariners, and dreamers of all stripes, The Mariner's Book of Days, now in its thirteenth year, is an ever-growing encyclopedia of nautical fact, fiction, and folklore, and has been hailed as the best, most entertaining nautical desk diary and calendar to see print.
Mariner's Book of Days
Author: Desk
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780937822524
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An institution among sailors, merchant mariners, and dreamers of all stripes, "The Mariner's Book of Days" is entertaining, informative and beautifully designed. It is illustrated with engravings, sketches, and drawings by artists and illustrators eminently familiar with their subjects.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780937822524
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An institution among sailors, merchant mariners, and dreamers of all stripes, "The Mariner's Book of Days" is entertaining, informative and beautifully designed. It is illustrated with engravings, sketches, and drawings by artists and illustrators eminently familiar with their subjects.
The Mariner's Book of Days 2010
Author: Peter H. Spectre
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN: 9781574092721
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Now in its 19th year, The Mariner's Book of Days is an ever-growing encyclopedia of nautical fact, fiction, and folklore, and has been hailed as the best, most entertaining nautical desk diary and calendar to see print. An invaluable reference, each annual edition is completely different from its predecessors, and all have become collector's items. On every right-hand page is a week of days, with the nautical significance of each explored in brief by the author. On each left-hand page is a collection of nautical miscellany evoking the rich traditions of the sea. Entertaining and informative, illustrated with a variety of lovely etchings, engravings, sketches, and watercolors, The Mariner's Book of Days takes readers on a 365-day voyage through history.
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN: 9781574092721
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Now in its 19th year, The Mariner's Book of Days is an ever-growing encyclopedia of nautical fact, fiction, and folklore, and has been hailed as the best, most entertaining nautical desk diary and calendar to see print. An invaluable reference, each annual edition is completely different from its predecessors, and all have become collector's items. On every right-hand page is a week of days, with the nautical significance of each explored in brief by the author. On each left-hand page is a collection of nautical miscellany evoking the rich traditions of the sea. Entertaining and informative, illustrated with a variety of lovely etchings, engravings, sketches, and watercolors, The Mariner's Book of Days takes readers on a 365-day voyage through history.
Mariner's Book of Days 2009
Author: Peter H. Spectre
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781574092523
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Now in its 18th year, The Mariner's Book of Days is an ever-growing encyclopedia of nautical fact, fiction, and folklore, and has been hailed as the best, most entertaining nautical desk diary and calendar to see print. An invaluable reference, each annual edition is completely different from its predecessors, and all have become collector's items.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781574092523
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Now in its 18th year, The Mariner's Book of Days is an ever-growing encyclopedia of nautical fact, fiction, and folklore, and has been hailed as the best, most entertaining nautical desk diary and calendar to see print. An invaluable reference, each annual edition is completely different from its predecessors, and all have become collector's items.
The Practical Mariner's Book of Knowledge, 2nd Edition
Author: John Vigor
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071808299
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Is this an entertaining book? The Practical Mariner’s Book of Knowledge is either the most useful boating book ever designed to entertain or the most entertaining book ever designed to be useful. In its alphabetical organization that juxtaposes wildly disparate entries, you can read about the derivation of fi gureheads where you turned to for recommended thicknesses of fiberglass hulls. In between the whimsy, however, is the essence of centuries of seafaring experience distilled into a concise reference for sailors and powerboaters. There may be no substitute for a lifetime of experience, but this book is the next best thing. It should be kept at the navigation station and on every boat. Inside you will find information that is otherwise scattered through dozens of volumes. If you can't find what you want quickly from the table of contents, there's an exhaustive subject index. If you need more precise data than a rule of thumb can provide, you may very well find it among the 16 appendix tables, which are also indexed. You'll find rules of thumb for: Changing a boat's name Towing the safest way Burial at sea Preventing wood rot Hull thickness Anchoring rights Jib size Curing mast vibration Time taken for boat tasks Survival rations And a lot more: open it up and get lost in the sage advice and witty wisdom that will make you long for the sea. "The perfect, practical gift to give or receive." -- The Ensign ". . . reads like a lively conversation with a friendly, seasoned pro." -- Lakeland Boating
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071808299
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Is this an entertaining book? The Practical Mariner’s Book of Knowledge is either the most useful boating book ever designed to entertain or the most entertaining book ever designed to be useful. In its alphabetical organization that juxtaposes wildly disparate entries, you can read about the derivation of fi gureheads where you turned to for recommended thicknesses of fiberglass hulls. In between the whimsy, however, is the essence of centuries of seafaring experience distilled into a concise reference for sailors and powerboaters. There may be no substitute for a lifetime of experience, but this book is the next best thing. It should be kept at the navigation station and on every boat. Inside you will find information that is otherwise scattered through dozens of volumes. If you can't find what you want quickly from the table of contents, there's an exhaustive subject index. If you need more precise data than a rule of thumb can provide, you may very well find it among the 16 appendix tables, which are also indexed. You'll find rules of thumb for: Changing a boat's name Towing the safest way Burial at sea Preventing wood rot Hull thickness Anchoring rights Jib size Curing mast vibration Time taken for boat tasks Survival rations And a lot more: open it up and get lost in the sage advice and witty wisdom that will make you long for the sea. "The perfect, practical gift to give or receive." -- The Ensign ". . . reads like a lively conversation with a friendly, seasoned pro." -- Lakeland Boating
With Sails Whitening Every Sea
Author: Brian Rouleau
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801455073
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Many Americans in the Early Republic era saw the seas as another field for national aggrandizement. With a merchant marine that competed against Britain for commercial supremacy and a whaling fleet that circled the globe, the United States sought a maritime empire to complement its territorial ambitions in North America. In With Sails Whitening Every Sea, Brian Rouleau argues that because of their ubiquity in foreign ports, American sailors were the principal agents of overseas foreign relations in the early republic. Their everyday encounters and more problematic interactions—barroom brawling, sexual escapades in port-city bordellos, and the performance of blackface minstrel shows—shaped how the United States was perceived overseas.Rouleau details both the mariners' "working-class diplomacy" and the anxieties such interactions inspired among federal authorities and missionary communities, who saw the behavior of American sailors as mere debauchery. Indiscriminate violence and licentious conduct, they feared, threatened both mercantile profit margins and the nation's reputation overseas. As Rouleau chronicles, the world's oceans and seaport spaces soon became a battleground over the terms by which American citizens would introduce themselves to the world. But by the end of the Civil War, seamen were no longer the nation's principal ambassadors. Hordes of wealthy tourists had replaced seafarers, and those privileged travelers moved through a world characterized by consolidated state and corporate authority. Expanding nineteenth-century America's master narrative beyond the water's edge, With Sails Whitening Every Sea reveals the maritime networks that bound the Early Republic to the wider world.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801455073
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Many Americans in the Early Republic era saw the seas as another field for national aggrandizement. With a merchant marine that competed against Britain for commercial supremacy and a whaling fleet that circled the globe, the United States sought a maritime empire to complement its territorial ambitions in North America. In With Sails Whitening Every Sea, Brian Rouleau argues that because of their ubiquity in foreign ports, American sailors were the principal agents of overseas foreign relations in the early republic. Their everyday encounters and more problematic interactions—barroom brawling, sexual escapades in port-city bordellos, and the performance of blackface minstrel shows—shaped how the United States was perceived overseas.Rouleau details both the mariners' "working-class diplomacy" and the anxieties such interactions inspired among federal authorities and missionary communities, who saw the behavior of American sailors as mere debauchery. Indiscriminate violence and licentious conduct, they feared, threatened both mercantile profit margins and the nation's reputation overseas. As Rouleau chronicles, the world's oceans and seaport spaces soon became a battleground over the terms by which American citizens would introduce themselves to the world. But by the end of the Civil War, seamen were no longer the nation's principal ambassadors. Hordes of wealthy tourists had replaced seafarers, and those privileged travelers moved through a world characterized by consolidated state and corporate authority. Expanding nineteenth-century America's master narrative beyond the water's edge, With Sails Whitening Every Sea reveals the maritime networks that bound the Early Republic to the wider world.